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Cairo. The last whisky lot was "King's Ransom," ¡ONDUCTED with the called
AUAVC
How
of prompting the question: eloquence Ü Christie's auction, much did the sale realiset. We thousands of bottles of gin, shall have to wait until we tot
prices, whisky, brandy and liqueurs auctioneer.' from Farouk's cellar have been sold in Cairo,
The auctioneer did not nood any eloquence to geil the spirits from the royal cellar reputedly the finest in the Middle East but he could not talk any of Egypt's lending wine mer-
buying the. chants into finest wines and magnums of
this champagne at curtain-raiser to perhape the world's biggest-ever
auction sale, the sale of
Farouk's
Egypt.
property
in
บท the
sald the
priced at
The cellar wap £10,000 sterling. And that one of Farouk's was only
cellars.
The Abdine Palace was wartime headlines when Bellish tanks drove into the courtyard while the British Ambassador
ultimatum delivered Farouk to change his Cabinet.
ап
by OSDERT LANCASTER
"-and
this, Lady Littlehampton, is our eldest who's majoring in -economics or Vastar.”
By GUY. WINT
CYNICISM
IN
Why? Wine merchants LAND REFORM
and butlers from embassies and clubs snapped up Brl- tain's rarest whiskles and gins because they are bo coming
buy difficult to since Naguib's Finance Minister, Dr Abdel Gemil cl Emary, has imposed rigid import bans on them to save sterling.
Rainbow Colours
Prospective buyers, Greeks,
a babel
mon
Guy Wint, widely known and distinguished writer on political affairs mainly relating to the East, has travelled
After extensively in India. China and Boutheast Asia. the Manchurian crisis in 1931 he served for a time on the League of Nations Technical Mission in China. He is now Far East specialist and leader writer on the staff of the Manchester Guardian.
DON IDDON'S DIARY
I Am Dining Out On My Half-Hour Talk With Mr Churchill
It
ond 0
or that
New York, Tuesday. But they dashed me through states that a Government officer.
have holdings car sped mo to the cannot E landed in Cuba and adjoining airport, I caught the Interests in any business
at Miami, Florida, New York plane with half 口 Is under contret of the United
to spare, and eveh States Government. on our way back to minute
rend
Mr Wilson should #clegram
have New York. I was only 20 managed to
Just before the Constellation known this. The high-priced minutes in Cuba and cannot
look off.
lawyers of General Motors, of be considered a. expert on
Since I got back to New York which he was the head, or the the country. No revolu- the weather has been bleak and well-informed Attorney-General cheerless with rain squalls and or Justice Department should tlong were going on. chilling cold. It's hard to think have told him. But none did. seemed
blue as peaceful and I was swimming in the
He unloaded tranquil as Jamaica,
Caribbean and lolling on the
day or two MR WILSON, after a show of A reluctance and impatience, unloaded his General lisa Motors Investments, amounting to $2,500,000, and his appoint- ment was conflemed bý the Senate.
His two assistants, also stock- holders in General Motors, are expected ments:
..
In fact, the airport was som- Kolden sands just nelent. I was supposed to have ag
The people's faces are white an orange card to get out of
grey. the aircraft and reboard it, but and
and the city looks the lush, tropical
a small, smiling man with a big drab affer gun on
his hip said sleepily: scenery of Jamalen. "No worry, sonor. Everything fine."
Memorable
to
to sell their invest- In fact, they will have sell out or get out, The rather involved contro-
At the airport bar the Im- AM dining out, of course, on patient Amerleans pounded the 'my half-hour at Prospect, mohogany
demanded Ochorios, with and
Mr Churchill. drinks. The bartender went Americans are hungry for every through the motions of mixing crumb of information about the versy over Wilson is called here Old Fashioneds, Mariinia, and Prime Minister. high-balls like a sleepwalker.
a bad start, for the new Ad- They say: "Did indies and gentle have a drink and a talk with be forgotten in a week or two. No work of time."
you really ministration, but I think it will him?" I am tempted to say It con be Time seems to be remething that I had several drinks and a
put down to tho ignorance of the new boys feel- that Cuba (and Jamaica) have day-long conference, but that plenty of.
would be stretching the
ing their way through Washington jungle.
men.
truth
Mr
Mr
the
that Churchill will not be
making another trip to the Messrs Eden and Butler in late. United States along with February or early March.
The contrast in Miami was somewhat. startling. The gaudy resort was
There is surprise here Actually, I rate the half-hour Jumping when I stepped on to listening and talking to the macadam. Women in silver Churchill as a bright highlight. mink were rushing about in the I have attended several of the heat, their jewels jangling.
Prime Minister'a Press
con Cadillacs spurted up the ferences and heard him make a
und bounced ddlye-ways
as dozen speeches at dinners and their drivers slammed the luncheons, but this talk was in brakes on. An airlines official timate and wonderfully reward- aprinted towards me: "You've ing Rot ten minules to catch tho There were only four Constellation 10 New York. respondents present. We shall You've got to get through remember, the pecusion. medical, Immigration, and
What did Mr Churchill toy? Customs. E
That
not permitted to I am print. The meeting was social,
Rome
1050 forbade The SMALL and inexpeh Law sive book has been torture of landlords; it provided them with a measure of pro- published in England tection, But on this one of the on the Chinese land reform, principal Chinese theorists.
Tec-hui, gives ("Land Reform in China". Teng HEY paid more than market Batchworth Preas, 1a. 6d.) interesting advice to agitators. THEY
prices for whiskies in the A great deal has already
"At some places," he says, hope, of being able to recoup been written about this. 1
It adres recently showed with a profit when there is a
themselves has stirred up the liveliest tendency to cheek real whisky drought in Egypt..
interest
Asia with the law, They were afraid throughout
to do this or that Landlords French and Eng- because so many countries fell back on documents Italla
and lish, talking
of lan-have their own acute jaws to resist And sabotag
This kind of reform, guages but all with the com- agrarian problems. They land
law must be the low denominator
of a con- look towards China to see servitude to
corrected. The Land Reform noisseurs ne Lyptian, palace whether its reforms offer Law and other supplementary by a giant
be guard into an anteroom to in- them the key to their own decrees, should
used weapons for the peasants speet sample bottles from the difficulties. cellar stock.
attack the landlords, and should The originality in the book not be used by the landlords as just published is that it is tools with which to resist land
Some laws reform. compiled exclusively from
open to noxious interpretations. interpretation should reports in the Communist No press, from speeches by made in the interests Communist statesmen, and landlords, from books by Communist writers. It is an account of land reform as presented by the Chinese themselves.
yet?
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST · HONGKONG
ANNOUNCEMENT
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The MANAGEMENT.
The bottles stood like the board of a medieval alchemist -curved and fluted flasks of liqueurs, earthenware flagons of liqueurs, earthenware Bagens of brandies from French manas- teries, sherries and Curacaos, Chartreuses and Kirsches and world's Grand Marniers the finest rainbow-coloured liquids trapping the this January sun- chine.
...
Aro
Ο
the
TRUE SITUATION
H
Instruction book
a talk off the record.
Some sources suggest that Mir Churchill already achieved what he wanted in his talka with Mr. Eisenhower in New York be.
Jamaican holiday. Myself, I don't know.
cor-
fore
had
Money talks?
was stressed at Prospect, Ochorios, that Mr Churchill
worked very hard during
The medical was easy. Im- Customs were migration and not. This was the first time T
Here in New York everyone his brief New York stay. You had entered the United States
Ecems to belleve the Rreat can put any interpretation you since the McCarran Act come transition from President Tru- like on that. into effeef.
The financial wizards talk man to President Eirenhower,
to glibly about a deal for con- from the Democratic group the Republicans, has taken vertibility between the £ and THE Immigration official peered place with a minimum of url; to the dollar is said to have
at my
no Jarring passport and There has been examined a large book of in- changing of gears, no
painful been discussed. It is, quilo possible, but no ofetal here alructions printed in tiny type. creaking in the switchover. He said: "I don't know how to
will comment. Very Determined Otherwise, President Elsen- rate you under the new Act."
hower's
regime has begun I enid: "Look, I've been re- DRESIDENT Elsenhower, at smoothly.
There are minor porting Mr Churchill's holiday eerding to those
The who irritations..
American In Jamaica. I've got to get the
have seen him
In the Temperance Society is demand- New York plane in a hurry,
White House is. news-
serlous, ing the extinction of the Wash- and, anyway, American
for solemn, very determined, The Ington cocktail party. The papermen all Americans,
my
vian."
country, without a temporarily. The Immigration official de- tive
SU
clded to let me in and put me there is down as д resident of the President."" United States.
factors
that matter can get into Eng- famous Ike grin has vanished society claims: "In the past ten years the State Department has land,
Few refer to the chief execu- served 122,000,000 cocktails at
"Ike" now. Instead home and overseas."
respectful "Mr Perhaps considers these It is clear that the Com
drinks were significant The picture is rather startling. munist leaders had no illusions
of Charles E. in the, loss of China and the One pleblan Tuborg loger What stands out most is the about what was being done in
Customs official said 1 Wilson, chosen to be Secretary rise in the Russlan belligerence. battle stood next to a Chassagne almost bottomless cynicism of
Indications that was not a resident according to of Defence by President Eisen- There are no Montrachet, Twelve types of the Chinese Government in its their name in the villages, and whiskies not seen in Britain since conduct of the reforms.
his interpretation, even if I had hower, has disturbed some Re- President Eisenhower intends to about the true situation there.
its advice and banish before 1939 stood like NCOschiavell would certainly
Ilved 100 years in the United publicans and possibly worried take have The Communists always claim
States.
Eisenhower, A specific law alcohol. among this array, with bottles of admired its leaders.
to be acting in the name of the champagne with gold labels on
people, But here is what the parade on the table like guardet
The cynicism-was-present-at. onsigns.
Southern Dsily, a Forty news- the very start. The Land Re-. form Law of June 1950, said Paper, said in July 1951: that the aim of the reform was "In point of fact the 50- to increase the output of food, called
Mac-
The auctioneer stood at the glass-topped table in the green and gilt auction Toc-in the office wing of the Absine Palace But in the instructions given by agitators who form a minority
as Chokli, one of Farouk's wine the Communist Party to 119.
waiters, in a white smock and net ne printed in the Come, far removed in
tarboosh, handed him simple bottles from lot!.
Best Price
are but a few
political con-
quite frankit in stated, selbusness from the general run.
to
that
the
ren of the peasants."
rent
purpose is very different. It is
Here is the Yangtze Dally on the consolidate
"People's Dictatorship" in the countryside, the news in the villages: "The by exterminating the landlords cadres pressed the landlords to their property, and who give up peasants and well-to-do
that 'failed the' endres the might oppose
Communist when
bound them hand and foot with champagne. Party.
ropes and beat them "heavily. Torture was repeatedly applied to the landlords during tho class struggle.
FTER he had not sold the
wines, be held
д up Jeraboum
of
Bids In Arabie, French and English rose slowly
01
£1.78.63. sterling-and stayed
there. It was five plastres
(or
one skilling approximately) below the reserved price,
of
ANTI-DESPOT RALLY
not
22 sterling went for 359.
An Interruption to the rapid Bre bids came when the whisky arrived. The hold-up was to keep the bid figures securale, "During an anti-despot rally Whiskies brought up to one-third more than their market price.
They went a lots of 152 and dozen cases, but it was one single bottle of ordinary whisky which brought the best price.
$
IN A FEW YEARS
were
FRENCH DEMARCHE SETS WHITEHALL ACHAST
By PATRICK Maitland, M.P.
to
•
It
London, Jan. 31. Prime Ministers discussed it in basador, M. Reno Massig, to
ace Mr Eden this week on eve N. the
of Mr London in October 1948.
Their
which communique stated: mlaston
set Whitehall Dulles' arrival
in "There was general agreement aghast. For M. Mayer, sald London to discuss, as that this association of the U.K. the Ambasador, thinks the he said over the radio last with her European neighbours pledge too Vague. leaves Tuesday,
the size of the British contribu-. tying Britain, was in accord with the interests the
of the other members of the tion wholly to Brited's dis- France and Germany to-
Commonwealth,
calth, the United
Na
cration. He told Mr Eden that gether, the French Gov- tions, and
and the
promotion of world unless Britain agreed to give
Defence ernment has made an im- peace. It was agreed that the the European
Сот- other Commonwealth Govern- portant new demarche.
munity a say in how many ments should be kept in closs, troops she should keep in And there is the Southern
Mr Eden has bpen touch with the progress of this. Europe, France could not even Consider the analysis in., one
with Communist Dally, in March, 1931, on how seriously, considering how
Western recept Britain's projected as- principai the Qins, weat quickly, at prices newspapers--the Kwangsi Dally the cadres celebrated their
sociation with EDC. Britain can help France to "Heavy below market prices. Exemple: of
That would innko French why the
cating and Communist Successes:
took place. Class bottles of gin retalling here at agitators, or cadres as they are drinking
ratify the European Army Later, Canada took a direct
ratification
of the hand following conclusion of
treaty establishing held, Treaty
the the North
difqult, if called, are unsuccessful in some struggle. dinners were
Atlantia Treaty,
gulf, if not impossible, with the class struggle, salarios
nil the European Defence Com- which had been first proposed
the concurrent dangers of villages in stirring up
drawn,"
munity (EDC), For Mr by M. St. Laurent In his his an American withdrawal from peasants against the landlords,
at which torio speech to the Ditawa Europe
Mr Dulles Churchill had been strong- Parliament on April 30, 1948. These class struggle dinners,
hinted over-the railo inst Tues reported from numerous places, ly urged by Gen. Bedell
day. For he then waised that in one.village, cadres did were sometimes attended by Smith, President Eisen-
appeared there
no werd prepare poor peasants for the several hundred people, Wine
hower's aide, to give more out crificing the universality Western European unity, and if Ha had then declared: "With chanco of getting effective occasion by telling them how flowed freely and fat pigs were
help to enable France, and of the United Nations it is pos- in particular France, Germany to accuse and by deepening roasted.
Germany to start the sible for the free nations of and England should their political consciousness;
20their European Army going. the world form their own separate When man meetings were held,
ways, then certainly closer ssociations for collectiva it would be necessary to give
** The auctioneer flourished frequently somebody went on
Britain had, in fact, al defence....It might grew cat of little re-thinking to America's and asked for bids; a bottle of the platform to say a few words
ready promised last April the pizns
own for Western Union new
foreign policy in relation whiskey or brandy one een buy In ant" then came, down again. But the greatest cynicism lies ony Cairo grocers for 221, at was Land
to enter into the descetung Europe. It could to Western Europe." reform cadres gazed at perhaps beyond all this. In the
create
dynamic counter- knocked down for £2.1700.
association possible with attraction to Communim-1 the poor peasants and shouted eyes of the world, the object of
Now, M. Mayer wants Britain the land reform has been to EDC and pledged herself to free, propertus end progrisly to promise to fix the number of For with the bottle went a to them in displeasure: "Yes fake away the land from the wine receipt signed by Farouk.terday you had so much to landlord and give it to the poor
como to its aid if it. were
Society
British divisions in Europe in Thus attacked, so long as Britain boca born. And under it, Mr powers, or at least
had the The buyer was a Greek importer, complain about. Now that you peasant
NATO idea The Communists tell
with the egroament
EDC Mr Juan Angelladies.
hlm
consulta that the land is his in are on the platform you become every sense: he is free to sell
bolonged to NATO-that Brooke Claxton proposed in lon with them. This would Но sald: "I wouldn't use tongue-tied. I have put down or rent it. Yet, all the time,
is, for twenty years. M. February 1941 w three-year de- noi, M. Massigli explained, pro this brand for cocktails, let all your names. If you do not while solemnly going through Mayor is not satisfied. For fence programme will provision vent Britain withdrawing troopa alone drink it neat, but I want accuse well you will not be the motions of creating a now. this 20-year
to send a brigade group or re- if they were needed for over to paste the receipt an the
falls short of the duration almantal combat team rated allomalleol to the treaty
to defence; indeed, an bottle and keep it on my desk. ver land."
platform of han clans of shill-holders, the onl went up on the platform, of her munals
press talk. own accord to accuse a land freely of their intention
of the 1948 to
Treaty of NATO force it up Britain to do this was proposed by
clarifying EDC members right lord. She started by pouring collectivise agriculture. The Brussels, an automatic In line with that,✨
stream of tears. A peasant is given lurid this year mutual aid pact between proinfeed last May 27 to Mayer and would also apply to and reform cadre mild: "What the Communists claim merit Britain, France, Holland, alon on the continent GIO you weeping for? Go for it and say at the same
Belgium THEN camo 30 bottles brandy, ahead and hit chat follow and moment that is at most, it will
and Luxembourg necessary and premier Napoleon be done with it
* or * few years at
which lasts 50. Bidding stopped at £2.10s; the
bb taken from thim, as Chinese reserve price was £4, So back
Later instructions to
agriculture is organised on the to the cellar went the Napoleon agitators told them howto Russian pattern: brandy.
prevent any similar disaster of PELO
* Clearly it is not for nothing Highest whisky price. was for this kind,
that one eminent Chinese, Com a whisky reputedly browed at
The candour shown by the mumist says that "land reform
·distillery owned by ho
Brankle Communists in at times quite rewrites history, as it were, by American gangster
another turning heaven, and earth up- Costelloita over the import remarkable.
examolo, The Land Reform side down."
n
Back To Cellar
forth A
Taka
of
ung they
deem
plodge now proponed,
Any
Cappropriereat of
having regard to their
ניי !*
M.
such commitment would,
of course, be harvi | ito' accept
In the Integrity of the EDC.". But Mr Eden's staff'am í not Just as Canada's undertaking often - caught unawared; - Now. Next, M. Mayer wants to be to send forces to Europe was Briikh, i projects have been sure about the number of troops, an ad hoc pledge to NATO, worked out. They will be Britain, is rondy to keep on the which may be revised at formally a communicated to the continent. The Commonwealth Canada's responsible discretion, EDC Interim Commission's has already agreed in principle so is last May's British pledge Steering Committed when in that Britain might reasonably) But this is where M. Mayer moota within thờ engage in mich a lie. For the despatched his London Am- wecka" in "Foria,
repetiow.